From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 5 16:50:43 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1E4216A41F for ; Wed, 5 Oct 2005 16:50:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jfarmer@goldsword.com) Received: from audi.websitewelcome.com (audi.websitewelcome.com [67.19.210.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC7EC43D49 for ; Wed, 5 Oct 2005 16:50:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jfarmer@goldsword.com) Received: from adsl-065-013-105-239.sip.tys.bellsouth.net ([65.13.105.239]:4712 helo=[192.168.1.33]) by audi.websitewelcome.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.52) id 1ENCTU-0002HG-6J for stable@freebsd.org; Wed, 05 Oct 2005 11:50:36 -0500 Message-ID: <4344047B.9040907@goldsword.com> Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 12:51:07 -0400 From: "J. T. Farmer" Organization: GoldSword Systems User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.11) Gecko/20050728 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: stable@freebsd.org References: <200510050050.26723.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> <200510051135.35932.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> In-Reply-To: <200510051135.35932.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - audi.websitewelcome.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - goldsword.com X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Cc: Subject: Re: Hosts/dns contention in FBSD 5.4 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 16:50:43 -0000 Malcolm Kay wrote: >On Wed, 5 Oct 2005 11:06 am, Jeremy Bogan wrote: > > >>You could try running a caching DNS server locally, DjbDNS is >>simple to setup and get going. >> >Yes, I have thought that maybe a local simple caching dns >server would help; and if I can't otherwise fix the problem >I'll give it a go. And I appreciate your suggestion of >DjbDNS. > >It does seem however that this should not be necessary. > > It is necessary when you have multiple machines and you take away the connection to their DNS. So, you have a couple of choices. the first is to setup each machine such that it refers to it's local files first, then looks for the remote DNS or you setup a local caching server. Personally, I would go for the second choice. A local server can be responsible for DNS for all local machines (including itself) as well as referring & caching external lookups. this makes life a lot simpler for configuring the other computers. John ---------------------------------------------------------------------- John T. Farmer Owner & CTO GoldSword Systems jfarmer@goldsword.com 865-691-6498 Knoxville TN Consulting, Design, & Development of Networks & Software